No Good Men Among the Living (CD-Audio)

from whitewavedarling

This is the other side of the story. With determined objectivity, Gopal does just what he claims: he tells the story of the War on Terror and the last fourteen years--particularly 2001 through 20010--of war and distrust in Afghanistan, "through Afghan eyes". The focus is not on the military or on...

from michelle.mount

The whole time I'm reading it I'm thinking - this has to have won a Pulitzer Prize! Turns out it was a finalist. The journalism leading up to the Afghan war is great until it gets to the actually war. Then the parties, the stories and the sides become so entangled it's hard to make heads or tails...

from doomjesse

A view inside a tiny world. I read this book with all the arrogance of a political and history junkie. I knew all the theories of why Afghanistan had failed as expressed by the "experts". I knew the tribal structure, the different groups, the power players and their histories. What I didn't know ...

from larryerick

There are a few things I expect from an especially good non-fiction work: (1) learning something of value I didn't already know, (2) having information I may already know presented in a way that adds great clarity, cohesiveness, and memorability, and (3) moves me emotionally on what might otherwi...

from froxgirl

Anand Gopal does a brilliant job of reportage but the only conclusion the reader can make is that nothing good ever happened in Afghanistan and it is unlikely that anything good ever will. The book title is true, and there is no good life for anyone in Afghanistan. Especially under the Taliban, w...